Reversing transmission



Julie 11, 1935.

"REVERSING TRANSMISSION Fild July 5, 1934 i F. P. QUINN ETI' AL FLOYD ROu/Iwv WILLIAM- HORROB/N WILL/AM FRANK HAWK/N5 mvE/vroRs 1 ATTORNE Y5 Patented June 11, 1935 UNITED STATES REVERSING TRANSMISSION Floyd P. Quinn, William Horrobin, and William Frank Hawkins, Vancouver, British Columbia,

Canada Application July 5, 1934, Serial No. 733,872

3 Claims.

Our invention relates to improvements in reversing transmissions which are particularly adapted for boat work. The objects are to provide means for reducing wear in a rocker arm type reversing transmission and to provide a construction where greater strength of parts may be provided in a transmission than in those now in general use, and also to provide a simple interior braking system whereby substantial contraction of the brake band may be effected with a small radial movement of the brake lever.

The objects are attained by the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and reference is made to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional plan viewof the invention.

Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the interior band brake arrangement.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

The numeral I indicates a cylindrical casing having heads 2 and 3 in which are respectively journalled a driving shaft 4 and a driven shaft 5. The shafts 4 and 5 are each fitted with a circular crank disc 6 fitted with a crank pin 1.

Extending along the transverse axis of the casing I is a shaft 8 having slidably mounted upon it a rocker 9 which is provided with oppositely arranged pairs of arms I0. Each pair of arms supports a crosshead II which slidably engages a crank pin I.

The head 3 is provided with a boss I2 which is journalled in a suitable bearing I3, and is also fitted with a sleeve I4 forming a cone I5 at one end and a grooved collar I6 at the other. The sleeve is adapted to be given endwise movement through a hand lever I! having a trunnion fork I8 engaging the collar I6.

Extending longitudinally of the casing I is a pair of rocking shafts I9, each fitted at its outer end with a lever 29, the free end of which is provided with a roller 2| engaging the face of the cone I5. These shafts also form anchorages for one end of a brake band 22 and are fitted with cranks 23 which engage the free ends of said brake bands. As the cone I5 is moved in an endwise direction towards the casing, the rollers 2! ride up the taper of said cone,'thus swinging the levers 2B and rocking the shafts I9 to apply the brake bands to the periphery of the crank discs.

Fitted about the periphery of the casing I is a band brake 24 which is contracted by a suitable cam 25 and is actuated from the lever I! through a pull rod 26 attached. to a crank 21 connected with the cam 25. The brake bands 22 are contracted upon the crank discs to stop them rotating as the band brake 24 is expanded to permit the free rotation of the casing.

In operation, when the band brake 24 is on preventing the rotation of the casing I and the brake bands 22 are off permitting free rotation to the crank discs 6, the driving shaft timparts a rocking and endwise movement to the arms In with respect to the transverse shaft 8, thus imparting an opposite rotary motion to the shaft 5. By virtue of the disposition of the crossheads II between pairs of spaced arms In and the sliding movement of the crossheads upon thecrank pins I, great strength can be given to the parts without making them unduly heavy and the free sliding movement of the crosshead upon the crank pin is attended with a minimum of wear. When it is desired to rotate the shaft 5 in the same direction as the shaft 4, the lever I! is .swung over, thus releasing the band brake 24 and contracting the brake bands 22 upon the periphery of the crank discs 6, so that the crank discs are secured non-rotatively in respect to the casing I and the drive is directly communicated from the shaft 4 through the casing I to the shaft 5. Since the brake to each of the crank discs 6 consists of two bands, each covering substantially one half of the peripheral face of said crank discs, a Very slight longitudinal pull is required to be applied to tighten the bands, hence very slight rotation is required to be given to each of the shafts I9.

What we claim as our invention is:

1. In a reversing transmission of the type described, a pair of aligned shafts, a crank to each shaft and a fixed crank pin extending from the crank parallel to the shafts, rocker arms mounted for sliding movement transversely of the axis of the shafts and trunnioned crossheads carried by the rocker arms slidably journalled upon the crank pins.

2. In a reversing transmission, a casing, apair of shafts aligned in said casing, a crank disk to each shaft, 2. fixed crank pin extending from each crank disk parallel to the shafts, rocker arms carried by the casing and mounted for movement transversely to the axis of the shafts, said rocker arms being operatively connected to the crank pins, a brake shaft carried within the casing parallel to the first mentioned shafts, a brake band surrounding each crank disk and adapted to be contracted as the brake shaft is rocked, each band is anchored to one shaft and conand means exteriorly of the casing for rocking tractibly connected to the other. the brake shaft.

3. In a reversing transmission as claimed in FLOYD P. QUINN. 5 claim 2, .in which two spaced brake shafts are used WILLIAM HORROBIN.

and two brake bands to each crank disk, and WILLIAM FRANK HAWKINS. 

